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Colin Thiele catalogue

updated 3rd February 2012


The March of the Mother Duck

illustrated by Mary Milton

This really happened!
A mother duck hatches ducklings outside Adelaide's police station, then decides to moves them to the River Torrens— with a police escort
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Paperback, 1994 Walter McVitty VG/-- THI100p $50


 
 



Colin Thiele children’s novels


hardbacks


Albatross Two: dj, modern adventure – crayfishing and oil rig -2 copies

1x VG/VG $8, 1x GD/GD $6
Storm Boy: dj, 2 copies 1x 1st ed. GD/GD 1963 ex-lib $30,
1x photo cover (not film) VG/VG $20



paperbacks




Blue Fin: tuna fishing at Port Lincoln
film version, photos by David Kynoch GD/-- THI107 $6
not the film version, Rigby 1986 pb GD/-- THI106 $6

Sun on the Stubble: 1930s boyhood in the Barossa Valley








Chadwick’s Chimney
: skindiving in caves, 1x VG/-- $8, 1x GD/-- $4
February Dragon: bushfire, VG/-- $8
Fight Against Albatross Two (published in hb as Albatross Two), VG/-- $6
Klontarf: VG/-- deserted homestead with a secretin Barossa Valley $6

Pinquo: 1986 VG/--, illus. Mary Milton. Children find and look after an injured fairy penguin. THI118 $6
Seashore and Shadows: VG/-- $6
Storm Boy and Other Stories (eg Dad Ran a Fowl Run): VG/-- $6
The Hammerhead Light: 2002 ex-lib GD/-- $6

The Twilight Ghost: Aussie Chomps 2006, new, chapter book for improving readers $8
The Valley Between: 1986 VG/--. Benno Schultz in Gonunda in the 1920s - worthy successor to Sun on the Stubble. THI110 $8

Colin Thiele children’s picture books (for younger readers)

 
hardbacks

Magpie Island
: dj. Illus. Roger Haldane VG/-- THI120 $10
Magpie is marooned alone on an island...Robinson Crusoe Magpie...
Until young Benny finds him a mate.
 
 

paperbacks

Mrs Munch and Puffing Billy: a goat and the iconic steam train in the Dandenongs - a lovely read for younger readers

1967 1st ed. GD/-- THI113 $10

 

 

Adult short stories edited by Colin Thiele
Favourite Australian Short Stories: pb, Henry Lawson, Judith Wright, Henry Handel Richardson, Hal Porter etc $10

Colin Thiele adult non-fiction
hardbacks
The Bight: dj, photos, VG/VG, with name $9
Lincoln’s Place: 1978 1st ed hb with dj, name on first page VG/VG
colour drawings by Robert Ingpen, story of Aust Pioneer Farm out of Melbourne $20

paperback - authorised biography
Can I Call You Colin?by Stephany Evans Steggall: 2004 New Holland Publishers
fat paperback in very good condition, blacked-out name and address on fep $10

 

Find more books by Colin Thiele at website based at his home town:
www.eudunda.net/colinthiele